#close

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#close #flies #get #human #human psyche

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ↗

— William Congreve

#confidence #ears #his #integrity #little

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#bad news #being #close #delivering #fail

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#disclose #even #happens #nothing #search

I was a closet stutterer. ↗

— John Stossel

#i

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#care #closest #home #love #ones

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. ↗

— Francois Mitterrand

#been #brought #close #delighted #france

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#easy #financial #financial security #however #i